Rules Governing the Award of the Brock Gold Medal 
Preamble 
The periodic award of a gold medal was instituted in 1952 by the LS.P. to encourage the advancement of 
photogrammetry. The funds for the provision of medals were given in memory of Arthur and Norman Brock. 
On 22nd May 1954 and 25th March 1955 the Council of the LS.P. adopted unanimously certain rules 
governing the award of the medal and further resolved that those rules should remain in force until altered by 
the unanimous vote of the Council, which provision is still valid. On 8th May 1958 the Council considered 
alteration to the rules and subsequently by correspondence agreed by unanimous vote to alter them and 
re-write them as follows. 
Rules governing the award of the Brock Gold Medal 
1. | The medal shall be known as the Brock Gold Medal and shall be awarded at the sole discretion 
of the Council of the LS.P. which shall be exercised in accordance with the following rules. 
2. The person to whom the award is to be made shall be selected irrespective of his nationality and 
solely in respect of his contribution to the accomplishment to be signalised by the award. 
3. | The medal shall be awarded only in respect of an outstanding landmark in the evolution of 
photogrammetry, which shall be a proven contribution to photogrammetry of whatever form, whether a major 
completed mapping project, some fundamentally new equipment or fundamentally new technique, or other 
new departure. 
4. The landmark in the evolution of photogrammetry to be thus signalised by the award of the medal 
shall have proved its worth as a contribution to photogrammetry at least two years prior to the congress at 
which the award is to be made and in general not more than some twelve years prior that congress. 
5. Recommendations for the award of the medal shall be made in accordance with the following 
rules: 
a) As a preliminary informative procedure, intended solely to reduce the possibility of overlooking the 
names of possible candidates, the Administration shall, two years prior to each congress, invite the member 
societies to submit the names of those whose work lies directly within their cognizance and in their opinion 
might possibly fall within the scope of the award. No recommendations shall accompany such names, but a 
brief statement showing the field in which the person has been working and the general nature of his work 
therein may do so. The Administration shall send to all member societies without comment a list of all names 
and accompanying statements received up to 18 months prior to the congress. This list need not be and shall 
not be deemed to be comprehensive of all possible candidates. Inclusion in it shall not be a prerequisite for 
recommendation for the award. 
b) Every recommendation for the award shall be made by two sponsors who shall be individuals adhering 
to the L.S.P. through any of the forms of membership and who are not of the same nationality as their candidate 
nor of the same nationality as one another. 
c) Recommendations shall be in respect of an individual and not of a group of individuals nor of any 
organisation or commercial firm. However, as many advances in photogrammetry and in the execution of 
photogrammetric mapping projects may be largely due to team work, it shall be allowable to recommend the 
leader or the leading spirit of a team of workers, or such person as the team itself may think has made the most 
important or outstanding or fundamental contribution to their work. 
d) Every recommendation shall be made in writing to the President of the LS.P. and shall be accompanied 
by a documentation and explanation of the grounds of the recommendation which shall be sufficiently full to 
enable the Council to evaluate them. 
e) The sponsors may consult the photogrammetric organizations or individuals of the country in which 
their candidate has been working and, if they do so, they must include in their documentation the advice they 
have received. 
f) Recommendations shall be made only during the period between the close of one congress and nine 
months before the opening of the next. 
g) All recommendations made prior to one congress shall lapse at the conclusion of that congress, whether 
or not any medal was awarded at it. It is permissible to revive a recommendation that has lapsed by making 
a fresh recommendation. 
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